Lifestyle, health and wellbeing

Connections between lifestyle, physical health, illness management and mental health is well documented. Our team strives to better understand the factors that impact our health and wellbeing, including the development of interventions and resources that promote healthy lifestyles, recovery from and management of illnesses and injuries, and ageing well across the lifespan.

Our team is investigating factors such as engagement in sports and physical activity, career development, driving safety, healthy communities, changing health behaviours, and the management of chronic health conditions and neurological disorders and recovery from traumatic injuries.

Examples of our programs:

Life - Fit  Program for players within the Jnr Rugby League RISE Development Program;

Health and Psychology Innovations (HaPI) Research Laboratory for research in the fields of health psychology and behavioural medicine;

Cancer and Beyond Health Psychology Research Laboratory (CABLAB) researchers conduct innovative research using the science and clinical insights of health psychology to improve the quality of life of people with or at risk of cancer and other chronic health conditions;

MaXCCEL team are committed to maximising cognition and everyday function for all individuals.